Editorial, 2025
Instructor: Elliot Walker
This book is a curated collection of publicly available
one-star Google reviews. Through the juxtaposition of amateur photography, found design elements, and digital detritus, it explores themes of disappointment, digital memory, and emotional outbursts in an age of online consumer culture. The intention is not to mock, but to observe: how do we describe dissatisfaction? What aesthetics emerge from poorly designed platforms and impulsive feedback? This book aims to reframe the overlooked voices of complaint—anonymous, fleeting, and often absurd—into something preserved, visible, and worth revisiting.
one-star Google reviews. Through the juxtaposition of amateur photography, found design elements, and digital detritus, it explores themes of disappointment, digital memory, and emotional outbursts in an age of online consumer culture. The intention is not to mock, but to observe: how do we describe dissatisfaction? What aesthetics emerge from poorly designed platforms and impulsive feedback? This book aims to reframe the overlooked voices of complaint—anonymous, fleeting, and often absurd—into something preserved, visible, and worth revisiting.
Review screenshots have been anonymized and edited for clarity where necessary.
Colophon
This book was designed, compiled, and edited by Yeojin Ivy Lee in partial fulfillment of the Book Design at School of Visual Arts.
2.75 x 4.25 inch, 96 pages
Perfect bound
Munken Lynx, 100gsm
Typeface
Times New Roman & Alte Haas Grotesk